I've been struggling to articulate what it is about pro-Obama feminists' arguments that I find unsettling ... or unconvincing. First, I don't buy that this is an intergenerational thing. I'm 32. I support Clinton.

Maybe it's this: I feel as if some feminists are submitting Clinton to certain liberal litmus tests that, to be a viable female candidate for president, she can't pass, and then saying those failures are the reason they don't support her -- which is a move right out of the patriarchy's playbook. The diplomacy rhetoric and "cool" persona that are available to Obama as a candidate are simply not available to Clinton, and I think some feminists are punishing her for it.

If Obama's face is the face of new America, that's coding the future of the country as male. Once again.